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Wilhelmina Cole Holladay (née Cole; October 10, 1922 – March 6, 2021) [1] was an American art collector and patron. She was the co-founder of the National Museum of Women in the Arts , [ 2 ] and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2006.
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay was the founder and chair of the Board of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Since her discovery that women artists have historically been omitted from collegiate art history texts, Wilhelmina Cole Holladay made it her mission to bring to the forefront the accomplishments of women through collecting, exhibiting ...
The American art collector Wilhelmina Cole Holladay sought advice regarding placement of her private collection of works by women artists; it was Harris who suggested Holladay found the National Museum of Women in the Arts. [6]
NWHF from across river, in 2022. Interior of NWHF, in historic mill, in 2022. The National Women's Hall of Fame (NWHF) is an American institution founded to honor and recognize women. It was incorporated in 1969 in Seneca Falls, New York, and first inducted honorees in 1973. [1][2] As of 2024, the Hall has honored 312 inductees. [3][4][5]
Kate Mullany was an Irish immigrant born in 1845 who moved to the United States of America at a very young age. [3] With her co-workers Esther Keegan and Sarah McQuillan, she organized approximately 300 women into the first sustained female union in the country, the Collar Laundry Union, in 1864. Mullany went on to be its president and was ...
November 20, 1827. Sherwood, New York. Died. June 29, 1929. (1929-06-29) (aged 101) Emily Howland (November 20, 1827 – June 29, 1929) was a philanthropist and educator. She supported the education of African-Americans. She was also a strong supporter of women's rights and the temperance movement.
Sophia Smith (August 27, 1796 – June 12, 1870) founded Smith College in 1870 with the substantial estate she inherited from her father, who was a wealthy farmer, and her six siblings, who had all predeceased her. [ 1] An avid reader, Smith attended schools in Hatfield, Massachusetts, and Hartford, Connecticut. She later attended Hopkins ...
Martha Coffin was born in Boston, Massachusetts on Christmas Day 1806, the youngest child of Anna Folger and Thomas Coffin, a merchant and former Nantucket ship captain. Wright was the youngest of eight children. Some of her well-known siblings were Sarah, Lucretia, Eliza, Mary, and Thomas.